1. The original nearly all-black one
2. The "Offroad" version that's mostly blue with some grey and yellow details.
3. The "Premium" version that is quite like the original, but with more silver and yellow paint, more gloss, and a large autobrand on the hood.
4. ROTF Ironhide, which has a gray paintjob and new cannons, as well as a more accurate head.
5. Recon Ironhide, which is mostly black with some white lightning paint and LOTS and LOTS of new weapons.

If you want screen accuracy, go with either #1 or #3. I'm surprised the voyager mold hasn't been given the G1 deco yet.

here it is in a simpler form for those of you who somehow can't figure out the question: There are a few iron hides, but which is worth $20-25 ?

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So what you're really asking is from the different Ironhides that have been released in the ROTF line, which one is the best choice for the money you'd spend on it?

That, of course, depends on what you are looking for in a movie Ironhide figure and what would make it worth the price paid. Are you looking for accuracy compared to the movie? Are you looking for the best accessories or weapons? Are you looking for the toy that is most fun to play with? Are you looking for the version that has enough differences from the first movie's Ironhide toy to be worth purchasing?

I'm guessing you may have the information you were looking for from some of the answers here. Hopefully you can also understand where your original sentence-fragment question fell short and why it was criticized.

1. The original nearly all-black one
2. The "Offroad" version that's mostly blue with some grey and yellow details.
3. The "Premium" version that is quite like the original, but with more silver and yellow paint, more gloss, and a large autobrand on the hood.
4. ROTF Ironhide, which has a gray paintjob and new cannons, as well as a more accurate head.
5. Recon Ironhide, which is mostly black with some white lightning paint and LOTS and LOTS of new weapons.

If you want screen accuracy, go with either #1 or #3. I'm surprised the voyager mold hasn't been given the G1 deco yet.

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For movie accuracy, I have to go with the original version (despite the unfortunate head which they did fix for rotf). The premium was better in some ways, but some of the paint was tacky overkill.

For play value I suspect Recon Ironhide is the best just because he has so many weapons.

Since I go for movie accuracy/display figures I've just stuck with #1.